I have been failing rather spectacularly at keeping my blog resolution...so in the spirit of optimism and general not-giving-up...ness...here is a meme-type thing appropriated from a friend's facebook:
Rules: Once you've been tagged, you are supposed to write a note with 25 random things, facts, habits or goals about you. At the end, choose 25 people to be tagged. You have to tag the person who tagged you. If I tagged you, it's because I want to know more about you.
(A note here - since this originally came from facebook, 25 people is nothing there. But I don't even follow 25 blogs, so I'm going to open this up to whomever is interested, quite possibly no one. And please don't feel required to tag me back - wouldn't that just result in a never-ending cycle of 25 facts, tagging, being tagged, 25 facts, etc?)
1. I am very probably moving to the St. Louis area within the next month or so.
2. This does not bother me as much as it once did.
3. In 5th grade, I wanted to play the saxophone like Lisa Simpson. My parents argued that sticks were cheaper, so I played the drums instead.
4. I have been a vegetarian at two points in my life. Sometimes when I have a mouthful of meat, my brain will say 'this is flesh' and I'll feel incredibly grossed out.
5. I love love loooooove country music. I am the only one in my family who does.
6. My boyfriend is joining the Navy. I have never been more proud/terrified in my life.
7. I hate when people bite their silverware.
8. I was not directly affected by the events of 9/11, but to this day I cannot see any footage of it without crying.
9. I prefer Cherry Coke to regular.
10. I would love to teach children about the environment.
11. If I had to be homeless, I would want to live in Hawaii. Their homeless people live on the beach.
12. I would love to get a book published, but I fear I haven't anything interesting to say. At least not enough to fill a book.
13. I have read Bill Bryson's A Walk In The Woods probably 10 times or more.
14. The only book I may have read more frequently is Where the Red Fern Grows.
15. In kindergarten, I wanted to be a construction worker on the moon.
16. I believe that wish helped me get into Cornell. I referenced it in an application essay.
17. I have never broken a bone. I have fractured my skull, and sprained my wrist, ankle and thumb.
18. I enjoy giving blood.
19. I once had a cell phone embedded into a dirt road by a minivan.
20. I plan to expand on my tattoo once I get the money. (sorry, Mom)
21. I have been to France twice.
22. If I could travel anywhere in the world, it would either be Ireland or Australia.
23. I am a youth group leader at a Catholic church.
24. If Obama had lost the election, I would be living in Canada right now.
25. I can't listen to Ted Leo and the Pharmacists' "Me and Mia" without dancing.
